tf.depth_to_space(input, block_size, name=None)

tf.depth_to_space(input, block_size, name=None)

See the guide: Tensor Transformations > Slicing and Joining

DepthToSpace for tensors of type T.

Rearranges data from depth into blocks of spatial data. This is the reverse transformation of SpaceToDepth. More specifically, this op outputs a copy of the input tensor where values from the depth dimension are moved in spatial blocks to the height and width dimensions. The attr block_size indicates the input block size and how the data is moved.

• Chunks of data of size block_size * block_size from depth are rearranged into non-overlapping blocks of size block_size x block_size
• The width the output tensor is input_depth * block_size, whereas the height is input_height * block_size.
• The depth of the input tensor must be divisible by block_size * block_size.

That is, assuming the input is in the shape: [batch, height, width, depth], the shape of the output will be: [batch, height*block_size, width*block_size, depth/(block_size*block_size)]

This operation requires that the input tensor be of rank 4, and that block_size be >=1 and that block_size * block_size be a divisor of the input depth.

This operation is useful for resizing the activations between convolutions (but keeping all data), e.g. instead of pooling. It is also useful for training purely convolutional models.

For example, given this input of shape [1, 1, 1, 4], and a block size of 2:

x = [[[[1, 2, 3, 4]]]]

This operation will output a tensor of shape [1, 2, 2, 1]:

[[[[1], [2]],
  [[3], [4]]]]

Here, the input has a batch of 1 and each batch element has shape [1, 1, 4], the corresponding output will have 2x2 elements and will have a depth of 1 channel (1 = 4 / (block_size * block_size)). The output element shape is [2, 2, 1].

For an input tensor with larger depth, here of shape [1, 1, 1, 12], e.g.

x = [[[[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]]]]

This operation, for block size of 2, will return the following tensor of shape [1, 2, 2, 3]

[[[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]],
  [[7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12]]]]

Similarly, for the following input of shape [1 2 2 4], and a block size of 2:

x =  [[[[1, 2, 3, 4],
       [5, 6, 7, 8]],
      [[9, 10, 11, 12],
       [13, 14, 15, 16]]]]

the operator will return the following tensor of shape [1 4 4 1]:

x = [[ [1],   [2],  [5],  [6]],
     [ [3],   [4],  [7],  [8]],
     [ [9],  [10], [13],  [14]],
     [ [11], [12], [15],  [16]]]

Args:

• input: A Tensor.
• block_size: An int that is >= 2. The size of the spatial block, same as in Space2Depth.
• name: A name for the operation (optional).

Returns:

A Tensor. Has the same type as input.

Defined in tensorflow/python/ops/gen_array_ops.py.